Tripitena's Speech chords by Lou Reed

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Verse 1
My love
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F 
 (F major) The king by  (G major) any other name a  (F major) pissoir
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You,  (E minor) my love  (F major) tower over them all  (E flat major) 
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F 
 (G major) They are but vermin beneath your  (F major) heels
G 
They are mon (G major) keys
Suit them, frame them to
your own vision
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G 
But do not  (F major) let one false  (G major) word
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Of mockery  (F major) seep through
to your vast heart
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 (G major) I have seen you from close and afar
and your worth
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 (F major) Far exceeds your height, your
width
The depth of your sorrow
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D 
Oh  (G major) willful  (D major) outcast doth thou not see
the light of our love
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 (G major) Our linked fortunes
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 (F major) Our hearts melded together
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F 
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Into  (G major) one fine  (F major) golden  (G major) braided
finery
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They listen to the music of  (E flat major) idi
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ots and amuse  (G major) themselves
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With the sordid  (F major) Miseries
of their businesses
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They are  (G major) not the things
of angels
Nor of any higher outpost that humanity
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D 
might  (G major) aspire  to  (D major) 
Eb 
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 (E flat major) Your  (G major) loathsome vomitous
Eb 
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Businessman king is of  (E flat major) the lowest  (G major) order
His advisors
Crumbling mockeries of education
Eb 
G 
driven  (E flat major) by   (G major) av arice
Em 
 (E minor) My love
F 
G 
 (F major) Dress them in  (G major) the suits of mockery
And in their advanced
state of stupidity
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And senil (F major) ity
Burn and destroy them so their ashes
might join the compost
Which they so much deserve
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G 
If justice on  (F major) this earth  (G major) be fleeting
F 
Let us  (F major) for once hear the weeping
And the braying
of the businessman king
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Let them be  (G major) the the orangutans they are
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And  (F major) set them blazing from the chandelier
G 
 (G major) for all to see
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 (F major) Hanging from the ceiling by
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their ridiculous chain (E minor) s
And petticoats which you will
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have  (F major) them wear
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Under the guise of  (E flat major) costumic buffoonery
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 (F major) He who underestimates
In time is bound to find the truth sublime
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And  (E flat major) hollow lie upon the grates of
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 (E minor) sys temic disorder
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Businessmen  (E minor) 
You're not worth shitting on